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Assembly GOP lawmakers vow to quickly pass fetal tissue bill

Noted: The bill would go further than existing law and ban donations of such tissues or research on long-standing tissue lines — an alarming development for some medical researchers … University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have raised similar concerns. In some cases, it might no longer be possible to determine the origins of certain long-standing tissue lines, according to Tim Kamp, a medical doctor and co-director of the UW-Madison’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center.